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Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2009
Applicants:

Nobuyasu Itoh, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Gakuto Kurata, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Masafumi Nishimura, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Inventors:

Nobuyasu Itoh, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Gakuto Kurata, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Masafumi Nishimura, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/26 (2013.01); G06F 17/30746 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, method, and computer readable article of manufacture for extracting a specific situation in a conversation. The system includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring speech voice data of speakers in the conversation; a specific expression detection unit for detecting the speech voice data of a specific expression from speech voice data of a specific speaker in the conversation; and a specific situation extraction unit for extracting, from the speech voice data of the speakers in the conversation, a portion of the speech voice data that forms a speech pattern that includes the speech voice data of the specific expression detected by the specific expression detection unit.


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